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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1907
Page
8
A playful exchange among four players centers on action in their card game. Amid quips about leads trumps and misreads, references surface to thread, spades, and a head bump, ending with questions about the lead and trump.
The piece argues that training girls from childhood in entertaining makes home parties natural daily life and more popular. It urges mothers to permit inviting peers and to help select suitable amusements so evenings at home become more pleasant than elsewhere.
It takes time and some intelligence to keep hands beautiful delicate in color and soft in texture without a pro manicurist. Use tepid water and Castile soap for cleansing rinse lather rinse dry then wipe with aromatic toilet water for finer whiter skin.
Common baking soda is the safest burn remedy and provides instant relief when applied promptly. Mustard offers another useful treatment. a few teaspoons in water acts as a mild emetic and mustard plasters help relieve internal pains and headaches through counter irritation.
A quirky note explains an unorthodox method for making giant soap bubbles that roll across carpet, emphasizing the durability and novelty of the technique. It hints at practical tips but lacks detailed steps or sources.
Instructions describe dissolving brown laundry soap in warm water then adding gum arabic glycerine and cold water to create strong colored bubbles. Suggests dyes or fruit juices for color and notes hot water helps dissolve ingredients while cold water slows bubble bursting. Mentions a small pipe from kindergarten suppliers cost about fifteen cents.
At the St Peter chapel in Florence a unique bird choir of 300 birds in cages lines both sides of the altar. A girl leader, trained for over two years, conducts the service with the birds whistling the opening notes before joining in harmony, creating an exquisitely rendered musical part. The Detroit Free Press notes the birds follow the instructor's hand movements.
Cut off the coarse stalks and leaves from celery. Cut the best parts into short pieces and stew in broth until tender. For two cups of celery add cream flour and butter, thicken with milk, salt, pepper, and nutmeg if desired.
A simple meat loaf style dish uses one pound lean beef or Hamburg steak. Mix chopped onion bread soaked in water, one egg, red pepper, and salt. Shape into a roll or ball bake in buttered pan basting occasionally. Serve with gravy or tomato sauce.
Cream one half cup of butter with one and a half cups of sugar. Beat in the yolks of four eggs, then add one cup of milk and two and a quarter cups of flour sifted with four level teaspoons of lemon flavoring. Stir in half a pound of chopped dates. Bake in shallow pans and spread a boiled icing between and over the top, decorating with stoned dates.
Boil six eggs six minutes for firm shells then cool briefly and shell. Melt two tablespoons butter with salt paprika and finely chopped parsley. Pour over hot eggs in a deep covered dish to keep them hot before serving.
A recipe fragment describes creaming one cup of sugar with half a cup of butter until light. It continues with directions likely for adding other ingredients to form a caramel flavored cake batter. The text is incomplete and lacks full steps or quantities.
Instructions describe assembling layers with milk flour cream of tartar soda vanilla and lemon extract then baking. Filling cooks milk sugar corn starch and butter with vanilla. Frosting combines brown sugar and milk boiled to a soft ball then cooled to spread.
Dissolve half a box of gelatine in a cupful of cold water. Cook a quart of canned tomatoes, season and strain, then heat again. Add the gelatine and stir until dissolved. Pour into shallow dishes or small molds. Serve on individual plates in beds of lettuce with chopped celery and mayonnaise.
Mix five tablespoons corn starch sugar and salt, then dilute with cold milk. Add scalded milk and cook ten minutes. Melt chocolate with hot water and blend in. Fold in stiff egg whites and vanilla. Chill and mold, serve with cream.
A historical recipe notes a cupful of butter two cupfuls of sugar a cupful of milk three cupfuls of flour two teaspoons of cream of tartar half a teaspoon of soda the whites of six eggs and one cocoa nut grated. Bake three dozen cakes cool and dip in melted fondant flavor and tint with blanched almonds and candied fruit for decoration.
A reader provides instructions to make confection by dissolving gelatine in cold water, boiling sugar to a strong thread, then mixing and beating on a powdered sugar dusted board. After shaping, rolling in sugar, the candy is cut with a large knife and finished with strawberry flavoring.
A critique of advice from women writers on marriage and affection. The piece argues that affection is largely spontaneous and not easily manufactured by counsel. It satirizes didactic guidance from single women to married couples and emphasizes noble living over manipulation in sustaining love.
Mrs. Van V. Boyce offers dressmaking and fancy sewing at reasonable prices at 306 South Third Street.
Western railroad passenger departments announce special Jamestown exposition fares. Round trips require one first class ticket plus 10 dollars, with varying prices to Chicago Omaha Kansas City St Paul and St Louis and a California return surcharge. Sales dates span May to September with possible extra three June days after school closings.
Mike McCarty reverses his pledge to avoid return without requisition papers after a discussion with Sheriff Taylor of Umatilla County. The sheriff arrived in Pendleton Friday and, following a brief talk, McCarty agreed to accompany him back to Oregon without delays.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and Golden Medical Discovery as cures for indigestion reflexes that cause heart and lung symptoms. It claims botanical, alcohol-free formulas boost red blood cells, improve digestion, and feed nerves, with testimonials from Mrs. W. M. Young and others. It invites free consultation with Dr. Pierce and offers the medical adviser book for sale.
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